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ID: 1013028
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1013028
Record Type:
administrative
Bridgetown (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 13 06 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 13.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 059 37 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -59.6167
decimal degrees
Note:
Commercial seaport & capital of Barbados, located on Carlisle Bay in SW part of island; new deep-water harbor has been built to NW by joining Pelican Island to the mainland; economy based on tourism & export of sugar.
Names:
Bridgetown
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
The Bridge Town
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Barbados
(nation) (
P
)
............
Saint Michael
(parish (political)) (
P
)
................
Bridgetown
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1628
city (
C
)
capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
World Heritage Site (
C
)
............
from 2011
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Barbados
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, North and Central America) [7004770]
Sources and Contributors:
Bridgetown..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
94
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
33
The Bridge Town..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 11 March 204
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
94
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
33
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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